Quotes by Macarthur, Douglas

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiven >>

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a >>

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. >>

Quotations about Fathers

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen a >>

It is a wise father that knows his own child. >>

Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the >>

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.

Macarthur, Douglas